Rebus after Dark, RMT721B

Edinburgh in the nineties was a city of closed doors and open secrets, and John Rebus walked its worst streets with a hangover and a grudge. Ian Rankin turned the capital's back streets into the template for tartan noir. Each case drags Rebus further into the gap between a respectable name and address, and what actually goes on there.

Ian Rankin, Let It Bleed - A car chase across Edinburgh ends with two kidnap suspects leaping from the Forth Road Bridge, and Rebus is soon digging into a suicide that implicates people at the very top.

Ian Rankin, Black & Blue - Rebus juggles four cases at once while hunting a killer he suspects of copying the infamous Bible John, from Edinburgh to the North Sea oil rigs.

Ian Rankin, Dead Souls - Rebus is stalking a poisoner at the local zoo when he stumbles on a man photographing children.